I love evocative names like Pintandwefall. It suggests pretty much where I am now with regard to alcohol although I reckon I can still manage four or five pints of 6% stout before I’m under the table.
They’ve visited us before and we’ve described them as Finland’s ‘reverse super group’ as some of the quartet have spread out into other bands or chanced their arm as solo artists rather than merging inwards.
Something I noticed previously (over four years ago) about the four ‘pints’ as they call themselves is that when they do rock there are often shades of Hazel O’Connor in what they produce. Think of O’Connor in her ‘Eighth Day’ persona and you’ve got it. Funnily enough we had a feature article on O’Connor only the other day.
Right now they are celebrating 20 years of being Pintandwefall with a new two track single and some Anniversary shows in early September in Tampere and Helsinki. The two track single will feature on Pintandwefall’s forthcoming eighth album. That’s one album every 2.5 years for the stattos amongst you.
The A-side is ‘Mustang’ – “a brand new Pintandwefall love song from the perspective of Kurt Cobain’s guitar, of course” they say.
The B-side features ‘Worse’ which they identify as “an ancient Pintandwefall anti-love song from our very first demo. This piece has never been released before, even though we have revived it for live shows from time to time.”
And Man, these girls rock. The same punky guitar riff lasts for over two minutes on ‘Mustang’ although nicely varied through a couple of key changeswhile they dispense altogether with such niceties as choruses and bridges and before a sci-fi like outro draws a conclusion. There’s plenty of melody there, too.
I don’t trust my hearing after a few six percenters but vocalist Iiti Yli-Harja seems to spit out “I am the gun; I am the muscle/I am the trouble” with the same degree of venom as Highasakite’s Ingrid Helene Håvik did on ‘I, the hand grenade’.
Must have been some love affair.
Another band that was well known for releasing a (classic) chorus-less song was Squeeze (‘Up the junction’) and I was struck by the similarity between ‘Worse’ and Squeeze’s ‘Cool for Cats’.
You could do a lot worse than channel Tilbrook, Difford and co. It worked for them and this will work for Pintandwefall too. I’m just surprised it wasn’t released earlier.
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The band was formed in the spring of 2006 at the career guidance office of Vaskivuori High School in Vantaa, and they set off on an endless tour. The tour continues. Catch it while you can.
Find them on:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Pintandwefall.YEAH
X: https://twitter.com/Pintandwefall
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pintandwefall/
Photo by Hetta Inari Komi
